Pádraig O'Ceidigh
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Yes, 100 percent.
It's a good question, Clare.
I think predominantly the line item will be different and the cost of the bag will be included rather than excluded at the moment.
And then we will have to tick a box to say we don't want the 7kg bag.
So the price will be seen to be more expensive because of that.
Having said that, the basic model for an airline, if you look at the
the kind of break-even level of an airline.
An airline requires passenger numbers.
So a passenger, one euro difference, can make millions of a difference to an airline at the end of the day.
So it's in the airline's interest to have the maximum number of passengers, and they can do that at a very, very price-sensitive figure.
So Ryanair, with 93,
95 or so, 90 plus percent load factor, that's where they make the profit.
It's the extra 10 or 15 percent of more passengers on board that they actually make the money on.
And that's basically the economic model in aviation.
um yeah i i again i just go back clear to potential unintended consequences and some that we might be aware of now and others that we're we're not aware of and i think it i think it will to some degree affect some passengers in relation to their psychology of it but having said that the number of passengers flying now has been unprecedented and like as kevin said earlier what
airlines like Ryanair have done, particularly out of regional Ireland, out of Shannon and so on, it's incredible.
Without Ryanair, you'd have to ask the question, would Shannon Airport be viable, for example?
And I think that's part of a bigger picture.
But I think, I believe that consumers will turn around, will accept what's happening.
But I actually don't think it's going to have any major positive effect.